BEHIND ALL OF MARK HARRISON’S PAINTINGS is an interest in light, atmosphere and colour. He doesn’t exactly paint what surrounds him, rather he is more interested in a skewed, more magical version of it. “Even my paintings of the city where I live, Brighton, have a surreal, mysterious feel to them,” he says. “ Usually through manipulating the lighting and atmosphere to something that interests me.”
Mark produces paintings with beautifully mystifying qualities and wants his art to appeal to buyers, not necessarily for their content, but for the mood, colour and light; something they would like to have on their walls, something that gives them indefinable pleasure. “There is no real message in them really, although I do like to play around with interesting titles that may
